Rosana Logan
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Rosana Logan | |
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| Born | 21 January 1905 New York, NY |
| Died | June 1967 (aged 62) Dade, Florida |
Rosana Logan (1905 – 1967), sometimes listed as Rosanna Logan, was a child actor in silent short films made by the Reliance Motion Picture Corporation, then known as the Reliance Stock Company.[1]
She was born January 21, 1905, the daughter of Katharine W. De Forest (1888-1975), a writer for Harper's Bazaar, and John Logan (1875-unknown).[2] She had a brother, Thomas Joseph Logan, born in 1908, who died in 1976. It is unknown if her parents divorced or her father died. Her mother later married John M. Liesch, a World War I veteran and US Army sergeant, and both are buried in Arlington National Cemetery.[3]
Film career
Logan was occasionally known as "Baby Rosana," sometimes misspelled Rosanna (see misspelling section below).[4] She appeared in Solomon's Son (1912), Half a Chance (1913), The Wager (1913), Diversion (1913), The Dream Home (1913), His Fireman's Conscience (1914), and Under the Gaslight (1914).[5][6] In 1914 she was in the play "The Revolt," a melodrama in three acts by Edward Locke, touring the northeast; it was later made into a 1916 film.[7] She played the part of the dying child, Nannie Stevens in the stage play, but not the film. As a ten-year-old she was in the film The Lady of Dreams (1915).[6]
Personal life
On June 27, 1929, she married Joel Gutman Cahn (1885-1950) in a ceremony at All Saints' Episcopal Church in Bayside, Queens.[2] He had previously married Constance Stern in 1910, and it is unknown when they divorced; she died in 1975.[8] Joel and Constance had one son, Chester, in 1914, and he and Rosana had a son, Robert, born in 1933. Joel and Rosana lived in Flushing, Queens. Joel Cahn was a stockbroker who died in 1950 at age 65 when he crashed his car into a tree in New York.[9] Rosana remarried in 1951 to John J. Kelly.[10] She died in June, 1967, in Dade, Florida.[11] Rosana and her mother Katharine showed chihuahuas bred by Mathilde M. Shaw of Flushing, New York, "Rosana's Bonita," and "Liesch's Ginger" (both 1950).[12][13]
